Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Derek Ragona wrote:
>> try:
>> rm -i *
>>>> only answer y to the one you want deleted.
>>>> -Derek
>>>>>> At 02:36 PM 3/31/2007, lalev at uni-svishtov.bg wrote:
>>> I've made mistake with tar. Something like
>>>>>> tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz *
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> tar cvfz --preserve-permissions * home.tgz
>>>>>> As result I have a file with name '--preserve-permissions'.
>>> It seems that it's not easy to delete this file.
>>>>>> rm '--preserve-permissions'
>>>>>> does not give the desired result.
>>> What should I do :-)
> rm -- '--perserve-permissions'. -- tells getopt to stop searching and
> the single quotes are a double bonus because it doesn't interpret the
> string contents beforehand, but instead passes it on as a straight
> string.
>> Try: rm "--perserve-permissions" and rm '--perserve-permissions', in
> that order to just see what happens ;)..
>> -Garrett
Haha. Forgot that the single quotes version won't work by itself. It's
basically for cases when there are shell sensitive characters inside a
string, when compared to the double quotes. The first solution with --
will work though, guaranteed :).
-Garrett